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305. (1) Any person may, on payment of the fee prescribed Inspection. under section 304(1A)-

-(a) inspect the documents kept by the Registrar. Or

(b) require-

(i) a certificate of the incorporation of any company; or (ii) a copy or extract of any other document or part of any other document, to be certified by the Registrar.

(Replaced, 49 of 1975, s. 5)

(2) No process for compelling the production of any docu- ment kept by the Registrar shall issue from any court except with the leave of that court, and any such process if issued shall bear thereon a statement that it is issued with the leave of the court.

(3) A copy of or extract from any document kept and regis- tered at the office for the registration of companies, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove), shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original- -document--

(4)

306. (1) If a company or any officer of a company, having made default in complying with any requirement of this Ordinance, fails to make good the default within 14 days after the service of a notice on the company or officer requiring the company or officer to comply with that requirement, the court may, on an application made to it by any member or creditor of the company or by the Registrar, make an order-

(a) where the default was that of the company, directing the

company and any officer thereof;

(b) where the default was that of an officer, directing that

officer,

to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order.

(2) Any such order may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne--

(a) where the default was that of a company, by the company or by any officer of the company responsible for the default;

(b) where the default was that of an officer, by that officer.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the operation of any enactment imposing penalties on a company or any officer of a company in respect of any such default as aforesaid.

(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 219)

production and evidence of documents kept by Registrar.

1929 c. 23, s. 314.

Enforcement of duties under Ordinance by court order.

[cf. 1948 c. 38, s. 428.]